Post by Madalina Dobraca

Dutch graphic artist – M. C. Escher – was born #OnThisDay (June 17) in 1898.   Escher’s mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints are easily recognizable, featuring mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedrons, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations.   Escher’s art became well known among scientists and mathematicians, and in popular culture, especially after it was featured by Martin Gardner in his April 1966 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians George Pólya, Roger Penrose, Harold Coxeter and crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and conducted his own research into tessellation (tiling).   “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.” Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898 – 1972)   Featured M. C. Escher lithographs and woodcut prints: 💠 Hand with Reflecting Sphere aka Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror, lithograph, first printed in January 1935 💠 Relativity, lithograph, first printed in December 1953 💠 Another World, woodcut print, first printed in January 1947 💠 Belvedere, lithograph, first printed in May 1958 💠 Drawing Hands, lithograph, first printed in January 1948 💠 Day and Night, woodcut, 1938 💠 Up and Down, lithograph, first printed in July 1947 💠 Waterfall, lithograph, first printed in October 1961 💠 Metamorphosis II, woodcut print, November 1939 – March 1940   #artbasedlearning #MCEscher #graphicart #mathematics #artandscience #artandmathematics #woodcut #lithography #printmaking #mezzotint #architecture #geometry #design